We’ve reached the tipping point, I think, with the annuals that adorn the planters on our front porch. After giving us a summer of vigorously contained beauty, the blooms are just about tuckered out heading into these last days of September.
Today’s find: ‘shroom
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Tags: Ecclesiastes, Gospel of Luke, Lazarus, Mushrooms, Radical Mycology, Twenty-Sixth Sunday In Ordinary Time
Today’s find: Facetime
We welcomed Francis Thomas into the world the other day, and I marveled at his beauty.
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Tags: Canticle of Zechariah, Ellen and Shane, Facetime, Francis, Francis Thomas, Newborn, Zechariah
Today’s find: Lost & Found
It was an odd feeling, gazing out over the gentle contours of the grassy acres where my home once stood.
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Tags: Gospel of Luke, Lost Sheep, SHP, St. Henry's Prep, St. Henry's Prep Seminary
Today’s find: Giles
A bit of mystery was resolved for me when I came across a hagiography of St. Giles the other day.
“St. Who?”, you say. And that’s precisely my point: I don’t believe I’d ever heard of the man until we landed in Edinburgh on the 4th of July, and took up temporary residence in a flat just across the plaza from that city’s iconic St. Giles Cathedral.
Today’s find: Squadron
I could hear the piston engines – their menacing murmur – long before I actually saw the planes the other evening.
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Tags: Battering ram, Biplane, Biplane Squadron, Biplanes, Gates of Hell, Gospel of Luke, Kairos Prison Ministry, Menard, Menard Correctional Center
Today’s find: Narrow gate
Apparently, our granddaughter’s first attempt to negotiate a narrow gate at the local playground didn’t go all that well yesterday.
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Tags: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Gospel of Luke, Jungle gym, Narrow gate, Tight spot
Today’s find: Dry bones
Live long enough, and you’re bound to encounter it I suppose: A feeling of utter helplessness.
‘So what do you do?’ a friend asked, as he shared the story of a 31-year-old step-niece who’s turning tricks to support her drug addiction.
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Tags: Addiction, Alcoholic, Binge drinking, Dry bones, Ezekiel, First Commandment, God Is Love, Greatest Commandment, Karl Rahner
Today’s find: Ends of the earth
It took almost 37 years, but we finally made our ‘honeymoon’ trip to Ireland this summer.
My dear wife teases me about that every once in a while: How long it took us (i.e., me) to get our act together and visit the land of her ancestors’ birth.
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Tags: Anniversary, County Donegal, Ireland, Malin Head, Marriage, Wedding Anniversary
Today’s find: Moonshot
We’re making a little progress, my brothers and I, in the effort to help our Mom downsize from the home of our youth. Yesterday, our clean-out day unearthed a front-page treasure that had been squirreled away in a steamer trunk for the past 47 years or so.
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Tags: Abraham, Apollo 11, Letter to the Hebrews, Moonshot, Neil Armstrong
Today’s find: Going for it
Standing over the shot last Saturday afternoon, I think I was feeling a little like Peter must have felt when Jesus told him to step out of the boat.
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Tags: 5-Iron, Bogey, Boone Valley Golf Club, Discipleship, Gospel of Matthew, Par, Walking on Water
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